Still dystopian

Well here’s a “terrifying read,” as Lee Fang says. In This Is What A 21st-Century Police State Really Looks Like, BuzzFeed’sMegha Rajagopalan writes that the police state of the future is already here: “Far from the booming metropolis of Beijing, China is building a sprawling system that combines dystopian technology and human policing.” She tweets, “My story from Kashgar, in China's west, on what it's like to live in a ‘frontline laboratory’ for state surveillance.” Tweets Miriam Elder, “Man, @meghara is an incredible reporter. Stop and read.” It’s a “powerful reminder that, for all the praise China gets for its clean energy transformation, it's still dystopian,” says Alexander C. Kaufman.

Remarkable women

“Wow...lot of Hollywood is just full of disgusting men…” tweets Dibya Sarkar. But “One happy side effect of this horrible Weinstein stuff is revealing what remarkable women some of these actors are,” says Nicholas Riccardi. They’re reacting to what Molly Ringwald calls “A (very) personal essay I wrote in The New Yorker”: All the Other Harvey Weinsteins (92,000+ shares). Samantha Storey tweets, “.@MollyRingwald. She was my teen inspiration; she’s been a parenthood inspiration. Now she’s my feminist inspiration.”

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"The Onion on the Great Fall of China: Shoddy Chinese-Made Stock Market Collapses," tweets journalist Louisa Lim, sharing a link that, while a parody, still manages to tie together the current Chinese market crisis, ...